The Associated Press
PERTH AMBOY, N.J. (AP) -- A patrolman responding to a report that a man was ``breaking up everything” in an apartment shot and killed the man early Friday, the Middlesex County prosecutor’s office said.
The incident happened while Curtis Good was visiting a girlfriend and her family. The call for aid came at 1:32 a.m. from the woman’s 18-year-old son, the prosecutor’s office said.
Patrolman Carmen Fazzolari arrived two minutes later and went inside. Another officer arrived two minutes later and was speaking to the teen outside when shots were heard.
Good fired eight shots from his .45-caliber Glock semiautomatic pistol, six of which struck Good in the torso. Good received first aid at the scene, and was pronounced dead at 2:21 a.m. at Raritan Bay Medical Center.
The shooting happened after the officer and Good had an encounter in the bedroom. No one else was in the apartment, the prosecutor’s office said.
The furniture in the bedroom was overturned and the wallboard ripped away.
Fazzolari, 45, an officer since 1986, has not yet been interviewed by investigators. This is his first shooting incident, the prosecutor’s office said.
Good, a self-employed shirt salesman, had home addresses in Newark and Rahway.